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Learn how to break the worry habit -- Now and forever! With Dale Carnegie's timeless advice in hand, more than six million people have learned how to eliminate debilitating fear and worry from their lives and to embrace a worry-free future. In this classic work, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas that you can put to work today. It is a book packed with lessons that will last a lifetime and make that lifetime happier! DISCOVER HOW TO: Eliminate fifty percent of business worries immediately Reduce financial worries Avoid fatigue -- and keep looking young Add one hour a day to your waking life Find yourself and be yourself -- remember there is no one else on earth like you! Fascinating to read and easy to apply, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living deals with fundamental emotions and life-changing ideas. There's no need to live with worry and anxiety that keep you from enjoying a full, active life!show more

Table of contents

Contents
PREFACE
How This Book Was Written -- and Why
Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most out of This Book
PART ONE
FUNDAMENTAL FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WORRY
1 Live in "Day-tight Compartments"
2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations
3 What Worry May Do to You
PART TWO
BASIC TECHNIQUES IN ANALYZING WORRY
4 How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems
5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries
PART THREE
HOW TO BREAK THE WORRY HABIT BEFORE IT BREAKS YOU
6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind
7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down
8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries
9 Co-operate with the Inevitable
10 Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries
11 Don't Try to Saw Sawdust
PART FOUR
SEVEN WAYS TO CULTIVATE A MENTAL ATTITUDE THAT WILL BRING YOU PEACE AND HAPPINESS
12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life
13 The High Cost of Getting Even
14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude
15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?
16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You
17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade
18 How to Cure Depression in Fourteen Days
PART FIVE
THE PERFECT WAY TO CONQUER WORRY
19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry
PART SIX
HOW TO KEEP FROM WORRYING ABOUT CRITICISM
20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog
21 Do This -- and Criticism Can't Hurt You
22 Fool Things I Have Done
PART SEVEN
SIX WAYS TO PREVENT FATIGUE AND WORRY AND KEEP YOUR ENERGY AND SPIRITS HIGH
23 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life
24 What Makes You Tired -- and What You Can Do About It
25 How to Avoid Fatigue -- and Keep Looking Young!
26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry
27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment
28 How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia
PART EIGHT
"HOW I CONQUERED WORRY"
Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once
by C.I. Blackwood
I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour
by Roger W. Babson
How I got Rid of an Inferiority Complex
by Elmer Thomas
I Lived in the Garden of Allah
by R. V. C. Bodley
Five Methods I have Used to Banish Worry
by Professor William Lyon Phelps
I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today
by Dorothy Dix
I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn
by J.C. Penney
I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors
by Colonel Eddie Eagan
I Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech"
by Jim Birdsall
I Have Lived by This Sentence
by Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo
I Hit Bottom and Survived
by Ted Ericksen
I Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses
by Percy H. Whiting
I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open
by Gene Autry
I Heard a Voice in India
by E. Stanley Jones
When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door
by Homer Croy
The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry
by Jack Dempsey
I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Home
by Kathleen Halter
My Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwind
by Cameron Shipp
I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes
by Reverend William Wood
I Found the Answer
by Del Hughes
Time Solves a Lot of Things!
by Louis T. Montant, Jr.
I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger
by Joseph L. Ryan
I Am a Great Dismisser
by Ordway Tead
If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago
by Connie Mack
I Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitude
by Arden W. Sharpe
I Now Look for the Green Light
by Joseph M. Cotter
How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years
I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax
by Paul Sampson
A Real Miracle Happened to Me
by Mrs. John Burger
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